About the direction of PyMAPDL: Option 1 - Only PyMAPDL

[germa89]

Implement high-level functions in PyMAPDL

Just add high-level functions to PyMAPDL.

We could also move all the low-level functions to a submodule so it will look like:

cmd =mapdl.cmd
cmd.prep7()
cmd.n(...)

and then the high-level API will look like:

mapdl.analysis.modal(n_modes=10)

instead of:

mapdl.slashsolu()
mapdl.antype("MODAL", n_modes)

mpdl.blabla...

which is more pythonic (similar to PyMechanical?)

[mikerife]

Hi @germa89 would these high-level API functions encompass all possibilities, or just the most widely used ones? Taking modal analysis as an example there would be a lot of args/kwargs on that one command. Each type of modal solver has 1-2 APDL commands to set solver specific options. About 2-6 per command. For the 6 modal solvers that's a lot of options!

Or did you have in mind the mapdl.analysis.modal() having just the options of say the MODOPT command?

Mike

[germa89]

We could populate a class with all the options at the default, so you will only have to specify the options you want to change from the default. But yeah, this is a quick thought. This needs a good discussion.
I guess at this point, the conversation is more general. What we would like to see? So we can work in that direction. We can later see how far we reach, what are our limitations, etc.